English Translation

National Socialist German Workers' Party The head of Prague IV., July 15, 1941. of the Burg party binding point at the Reichsproteftor in Bohemia and Moravia Ferncuf: 60951/55 The permanent representative. To the Secretary of State SS group leader K.H. Fr a n k , 19 Prague IV, Czernin-Palais. ampy Schu/ Ka. Subject: Ground Office Prague. After a discussion in Berlin, which he had held at the party chancellery with Reichsleiter B o r m a n n, the Gauleiter has shown himself to be very interested in the special political tasks of the Land Office in Prague. He has also shown the efforts of the Reichsführung SS and in particular the Racial and Settlement Main Office SS, the Bodenamt to become an organ of the SS. The present situation, however, calls for the active intervention of the party to prevent the political effectiveness, which is precisely given to the Land Office in Prague in an unprecedented uniqueness, from being more and more pushed into the background. I would like to point out in this connection that it is to be expected that SS leaders will leave the ground office in order to make themselves available for the new tasks in the East. Such a development would lead to the danger that the occupation of the thereby b.w.